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Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Media/Art/Culture, BA
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Department of Art, College of Arts and Sciences
Degree Awarded: Bachelor of Arts in Media/Art/Culture
Chair: Linda O’Keeffe
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Izumi Ashizawa
Assistant to the Chair: Laura Sisti
Office: 2224 Staller Center for the Arts
Phone: (631) 632-7250
Minors of particular interest to students majoring in Media/Art/Culture: Studio Art, Digital Art, Art History
Media/Art/Culture is a specialized interdisciplinary curriculum that brings together art history, film and media history, and photography, film and digital media studio practice. The program offers courses informed by histories of media, technology, and art, explored through specific social and cultural formations. Students engage critically with diverse topics and issues at the intersection of digital art, media, technology, and culture. Students acquire practical skills to create innovative work in digital media, including writing, photography, video, sound, interactive, computational and internet-based media. Coursework emphasizes cross-disciplinary, project-based, and collaborative learning; students practice working in teams and using forms of design thinking that will help prepare them to contribute in a wide range of contemporary workplaces.
From introductory to upper-level courses, students will build a portfolio of critical and creative work. The senior year capstone course is advised by faculty members. In this course, students work on projects in small and large groups that allow students to leverage their fluency in the history, theory, and practice of digital media, while gaining valuable full-scale development skills. With a flexible format, this final project is also aimed to support students’ next steps: it could be submitted in applying to graduate programs, used in a grant proposal for an art projector exhibition, or shared as a work sample in a job interview. Graduating students will be able to pursue a range of paths, working in artistic, historical, technological, and media contexts.
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Degree Requirements - Media/Art/Culture
The Major in Media/Art/Culture leads to the Bachelor of Arts degree. Completion of the major requires 12 courses, or 36 credits in total. All courses for the major in Media/Art/Culture must be passed with a letter grade of C or higher, or a grade of S. Please note that enrollment in any course is contingent on requirements stated in the undergraduate course catalog, and some upper-division courses require lower-level prerequisites. Introductory courses provide students with the opportunity to gain exposure to media arts history, theory and practice, providing foundational knowledge and proficiencies, enabling realization of critical and creative thinking into outcomes. Intermediate courses critically engage with contexts, methods, processes (analysis and application) of the languages of media. Students also have the opportunity to select special topics courses, or electives outside of the department, expanding the learning experience. The following completed requirements lead to a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Major in Media/Art/Culture: Core Foundations Courses:
At least three courses (9 credits) from amongst the following, with a minimum of one course from Art Practice and one course from Art History and Criticism: Art History and Criticism Courses:
Elective Intermediate Courses
Eight upper division courses (300/400 level) total in either ARS or ARH (24 credits), with at least one course (3 credits) from each of the two divisions: Art History and Criticism Courses:
Advanced Capstone Class- One course (3 credits)
Notes:
* Pre-approval by Director of Undergraduate Studies and Faculty Advisor required. Additional ARS and ARH Topics courses (300 and 400-level) can be used with the permission of the Undergraduate Director by petition if the topic is deemed pertinent to the MAC major. Additional courses outside the Art Department can be used with the permission of the Undergraduate Director by petition if the topic is deemed pertinent to the MAC major. Additional Notes: - No more than three credits from any internship (488) may be applied to the major.
- No more than three credits from any teaching practicum or independent research (ARS 475 /ARS 476 or ARH 487 /ARH 488 ) may be applied to the major. Teaching practicums are supervised undergraduate TA experiences.
- No more than three credits from ARH/ARS 487 may be applied to the major.
SBC Courses
This table illustrates major courses that can also be used to fulfill SBC requirements. (See Note 1 & Note 2) | SBC Category | Required Major Courses | Optional Major Courses (see Note 3) | | ARTS | | ARH 207, ARH 208, ARH 210, ARS 225, ARS 281 | | GLO | | ARH 391 | | HUM | | | | LANG (see Note 4) | | | | QPS | | | | SBS | | | | SNW | | | | TECH | | ARH 207, ARS 225, ARS 281 | | USA | | | | WRT | | | | STAS | | ARH 336, ARH 395, ARS 327, ARS 384 | | EXP+ | | ARH 475, ARH 476, ARH 488, ARH 495, ARS 475, ARS 476, ARS 487, ARS 495 | | HFA+ | | ARH 348, ARH 391, ARH 397, ARH 398, ARS 326, ARS 328, ARS 329, ARS 381, ARS 382 | | SBS+ | | | | STEM+ | | | | CER | | ARS 401 | | DIV (see Note 5) | | ARH 348 | | ESI | | ARH 395, ARH 400, ARS 402 | | SPK | | ARS 425 | | WRTD | | ARH 400, ARS 401, ARS 402 | Note 1: Some course information may be subject to change. Please contact your major advisor for additional consultation. Note 2: For majors that require study in a related area or completion of a minor, visit the respective program’s “Major SBC Courses” page to view expanded SBC options. Note 3: Denotes any course in which students can choose from more than one option. These may include, but are not limited to, major electives, concentration/track/specialization courses, or calculus/physics/chemistry sequences. Note 4: CEAS majors, the Athletic Training major, the Respiratory Care major, and the Clinical Laboratory Sciences major are exempt from the LANG learning objective. Students enrolled in the major in Social Work are exempt from the LANG learning objective, but are required to enroll in and pass with a letter grade of C or higher the first semester of an elementary foreign language course numbered 111, or satisfy through alternate methods. Note 5: Students are responsible for completing the general education requirements published in the Bulletin that was current as of the first semester of matriculation (or rematriculation). The following student groups must satisfy the DIV learning objective as part of their degree requirements: - Freshmen who matriculate in the Fall of 2019 or later
- Transfer students who matriculate in the Spring of 2020 or later
- Students who rematriculate in the Fall of 2019 or later
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